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DevOps Foundation®

H46DKS

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H46DKS

Duration

2 days

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ILT/VILT

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Overview

This introductory course offers a comprehensive exploration of DevOps principles, designed to foster innovation, agility, and enhanced quality in support of strategic business outcomes. Drawing on the latest insights, practices, and methodologies from the DevOps community, the course equips you with foundational knowledge essential to modern enterprise environments.


The course provides real-world case studies from leading organizations—including ING Bank, Ticketmaster, Capital One, Alaska Airlines, Target, Fannie Mae, Société Générale, and Disney—that illustrate successful DevOps implementations. The curriculum incorporates multimedia resources and interactive exercises to create an immersive and engaging learning experience.


Key frameworks such as the “Three Ways” described in The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim, along with findings from the State of DevOps and DevOps Institute Upskilling reports, form the basis of the course. You gain a clear understanding of DevOps as a cultural and professional movement that emphasizes communication, collaboration, integration, and automation—ultimately enhancing workflow between software development and IT operations.

Course ID

H46DKS

Duration

2 days

Format

ILT/VILT

Pricing, schedule & registration

Browse related courses

  • Audience

    The target audience is broad for the DevOps Foundation course and includes:

    • Management, operations, developers, QA, and security professionals, IT process owners, business managers, and business process owners
    • Individuals who require an understanding of DevOps and how it can contribute to business success within an organization
    • IT professionals and teams implementing DevOps

  • Prerequisites

    There are no prerequisites for this course, but we recommend that you have at least 16 contact hours (instruction and labs) as part of a formal and approved training course that prepares candidates for the DevOps Foundation certification exam.

  • Objectives

    After completing this course, you should have:

    • A clear understanding of how DevOps practices streamline workflows, accelerate delivery, and improve overall service quality
    • Foundational knowledge of key technologies such as microservices and containers
    • An understanding of the strategic business value of DevOps—including cost reduction, improved agility, and quality enhancements that align with broader business goals

    In addition, through engaging, hands-on exercises that reinforce key concepts, you receive practical resources—including sample documents, templates, tools, and techniques—for continued application beyond the classroom.

  • Certifications and related exams

    The course prepares you for the following certification exam:

    • DevOps Foundation®

    The exam has 40 questions, each worth 1 mark. You need to answer 26 questions correctly to pass the exam.

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  • Course outline

Module 1: Exploring DevOps
  • Purpose, objectives, and business value of DevOps
  • The fascinating field of DevOps to discover its role and why it’s becoming increasingly significant

Module 2: Core DevOps Principles
  • Key DevOps principles, including the "Three Ways," the theory of constraints, chaos engineering, and learning organizations

Module 3: Key DevOps Practices
  • Emerging DevOps practices, such as continuous delivery and continuous integration
  • Explore key DevOps practices such as continuous testing, integration, delivery, deployment, site reliability and resilience engineering, DevSecOps, ChatOps, monitoring and observability, Value Stream Management (VSM), and platform engineering

Module 4: Business and Technology Frameworks
  • The relationship between relevant frameworks and standards and DevOps
  • Explore Agile and Lean methods, ITSM, VSM, SRE, safety culture, learning organizations, and continuous funding

Module 5: Culture, Behaviors, and Operating Models
  • Learn how to define organizational culture, cultural debt, behavioral models, and organizational maturity models

Module 6: Automation and Architecting DevOps Toolchains
  • Explore CI/CD, IaC, cloud, containers, and microservices, machine learning, automation, DevOps toolchains, VSM platforms, platform engineering, and generative AI use cases.

Module 7: Measurement, Metrics, and Reporting
  • Gain an in-depth understanding of DevOps metrics, including speed, quality, stability, culture, change lead/cycle time, value driven metrics, DevOps dashboards, and AIOps

Module 8: Sharing, Shadowing, and Evolving
  • Take a closer look at DevOps in the enterprise, particularly DevOps leadership; the common challenges, risks, and critical success factors of implementing DevOps; and how to get started.

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